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Blippy splashed on to the startup scene in late 2009, hailed by The New York Times as a "Twitter for credit credit purchases." Little more than a year later, Blippy co-founder Philip "Pud" Kaplan has made a quiet exit from the credit card purchase-sh...

As the most popular social network in the world, Facebook has become the de facto destination for web denizens to share their thoughts, photos and videos, and connect with loved ones. With so many people using Facebook, the site has become like an on...

Blippy, the web app that shows the world what you buy, has announced that users are sending data on $1.5 million worth of purchases each week. Taking this as a sign that consumers want to share data about their purchases, Blippy is now opening an API...

Swipely, a Blippy competitor, has just announced a $7.5 million series A round of funding from First Round Capital, Greylock Partners, Index Ventures and several angel investors, including Ron Conway and Chris Sacca. This news comes hot on the heels ...

We posted news yesterday that Blippy, the site for sharing your credit card transactions with friends, had inadvertently made full credit card numbers of some users visible in Google searches. Blippy responded that the situation was "a lot less bad t...

This morning we learned that some users of purchase sharing site Blippy had their credit card numbers exposed in Google search results. The company is now out with their official statement on the matter in an attempt to assure users that "it's a lot ...

Update: Blippy has explained how the credit card numbers ended up in Google. Sharing your credit card and online purchases with friends on the web sounds risky and it is. We've just discovered that several credit card transactions shared on social ne...

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